Tag: nature
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Everyone An Expert?
Do you complain about the lyics in the latest Taylor Swift song? How about the work of Bob Dylan or Frank Sinatra ? Do you think Rembrandt got his painting right? How about Picasso? Did Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev meet your expectations? Unless you’re very different from most people you’re going to say well…
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Where’s The Duck?
One of the fastest ways to get better as a photographer is, as I’ve said, join a local club and get involved with all of their activities. Last night the Oakville Camera Club hosted a webinar featuring renown master Canadian photographer Freeman Patterson. A member of the Order of Canada a read of his achievements…
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Join A Club
Join a club. This is the fastest way to learn how to use your camera or increase your camera skills. While not all clubs are the same and you should shop around as in most clubs you’ll be as welcome as the flowers in spring regardless of whether you’re brand new and don’t know a…
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16,000 steps
Saturday’s photo walk with the Toronto Photo Walk group was a great success. We met at a coffee shop at the south end of Bathurst Street just east of the Canadian National Exhibition grounds in Toronto and began making new friends right away. By the end of the walk (which ended at a beer pub!)…
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Blinded By The Light
Another new photographer asked on FaceBook for suggestions on how to improve her badly exposed image of some birds feeding in a field. The birds were about the size of big chickens and the background was an overexposed field of green. Of the 20 or so recommendations she got almost all of them were wrong:…